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I gathered specimens of a Carcx, which experts pronounce to bo 

 Carex ustuJata, reported by Don from Ben Lawers in 1810. It has 

 apparently not been found since, and is therefore characterised in 

 the appendix to Hooker's Flora as " one of Don's reputed dis- 

 coveries." Scotch botanists are highly gratified by this con- 

 firmation of Don's trustworthiness. — James Beebner. 



PiNGUicuLA ALPiNA IN SuTHERLANDSHiRE. — In the late summcr of 

 1884 Mr. W. J. Ball, of Harrow, gathered Pimjuicula aljiina near 

 the sea, at no great elevation, in the Loch Inver district of 

 Sutherlandshire. This I believe to be a new county record. — 

 E. S. Marshall. 



Suffolk Mosses. — The Kev. E. N. Bloomfield's list of Suffolk 

 Mosses (Journ. Bot. 1885, 238) prompts me to send a list of a few 

 which I found during a recent stay in the east of the county, and 

 which are additions to that list, either as being new to the county 

 or to the vice-county formed by the eastern half. 



Species new to the county : — SphcKjnum cymUfolium var. sqiuir- 

 rosulum Nees, Lound; Cumpijlopus Jiexuosus Brid., Walberswick ; 

 C. paradoxus Wils., Walberswick ; C. fragilis B. & S., Lound; 

 Barbula marginata B. & S., Blythburgh ; B. i>apillosa Wils., Wren- 

 tham ; Orthotriclmm tenellum Bruch., Wrentham ; Eurhijnchium 

 pumilum Wils., Lound. 



Species new to the vice-county : — Plaffiotheciiua ^indulatum L., 

 Fritton Water ; Barbula intermedia Brid., Blythburgh ; Orthotrichum 

 saxatile Brid., Burgh Castle. — H. N. Dixon. 



Polygonum maritimum in S. Devon. ■- Having recently been 

 staying for a week or two in South Devon, I had the good fortune 

 to find Polygonum maritiiimm growing near Dawlish beside P. Pali, 

 Salsola Kali, and other commoner seashore plants. My friend Mr. 

 H. T. Mennell drew my attention to its rarity (it has been recorded 

 for North Devon, but not, I think, before for South Devon), and 

 he, as well as Mr. Arthur Bennett and Mr. Archer Briggs, who 

 have seen the specimens, agree that they are true P. maritimum. — 

 W. F. Miller. 



Eediscovery of Eeiophorum gracile in Surrey. — In June last 

 I met with this rare cotton-grass in a bog in the basin of the River 

 Blackwater, where, though very local, it was fairly abundant. 

 Some notes on its habitat may be interesting. The plant is 

 entirely confined to the wettest parts of the bog, growing, in peaty 

 water, among Sphagmim. and the roots and stems of the various 

 bog plants, two or three feet about the peat itself. Although the 

 roots, which proceed from the base of the flower-stem and from the 

 fascicle of leaves which terminates the stolon, are longish, as 

 described by Mr. Townsend (Fl. Hants), they do not seem to reach 

 the peat below, and the plant a^Dpears to live entirely among the 

 moss. It does not occur even on wet peat, and would evidently be 

 quite unable to exist on the comparatively dry peat which often 

 sufiices for its allies ; thus its disappearance on the approach of 

 drainage is explained. The spikes, when in bud, and stolons, arc 

 much more slender than those of angustij'olium, the former being 



